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Summary: Did the Council on Foreign Relations Encourage the Writing?
Review: This interesting work blames the entire JFK assassination on LBJ and his chief attorney Edward Clark with Malcom "Mac" Wallace and Lee Harvey Oswald serving as the only triggermen. It places them both in the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the shooting. However, it seems obvious that if Wallace was involved at all, he may have been the "Badgeman" seen in the Moorman Polaroid photo, which would place him in the "Grassy Knoll" area instead of the depository. The face in that snapshot looks like Mac Wallace. Oswald could not have been in the infamous sixth-floor window.The author's son, Scott McClellan, served as President George W. Bush's Press Secretary until a recent move to a more prestigious administration post. Since Bush is a member of the Order of Skull & Bones and undoubtedly beholden to the family that foundered of the Council on Foreign Relations, their followers and other secret societies, it seems likely that the author may have been encouraged by the upper echelons of the CFR to alter his book to cast blame for the assassination on Lyndon et al. After all, he, Clark and Wallace, like Oswald, are all dead. And as a lawyer Barr McClellan most assuredly knows that you can't libel the dead. This work may well be nothing more than another attempt to coverup the real perpetrators of the coup d'Etat in America on November 22, 1963; to again mislead researchers with yet another red herring.
Rating: 
Summary: Load of Paranoid Conspiracy-theorist B.S.
Review: The review title says it all. This is mostly food for the anti-Johnson people to consume in their hateful attempts to pin the death of JFK onto a generally unpopular figure among the Former-hippie-turned-yuppie crowd. As long as money rolls in from some kind of an audience of readers, the integrity of the writing doesn't matter in this case...
Rating: 
Summary: Sad Truth
Review: This might seem like another "conspiracy" book, but this
author has a unique perspective in that he worked in the
Dallas law firm that represented LBJ for many years, so
he is able to unveil the sad truth about that President
unlike other writers.
He entered the firm about the time LBJ's political career
was ending, but as the senior partner came to trust him,
and as he worked directly with the second-senior partner,
he came to learn many, many secrets about how LBJ operated
and how he achieved his political position.
This writer does, indeed, know where the bodies are buried,
and he names the names of judges, prosecutors and business
leaders who took bribes to cover up LBJ problems and crimes,
as well as who illegally advanced his career. From the
well-known stolen Senate election of 1948, where he tells
exactly who crept in at night to add names to a precinct's
polling book so the votes counted wouldn't exceed the possible
number of voters, on through the murder of a man who might
have exposed some unsavory facts about LBJ's sister, to the
most famous murder in modern times, that of President Kennedy.
LBJ's character is shown perfectly for what he was; the
lowest of sleazy politicians, who stopped at literally nothing
to advance his own fortunres and career.
Even in the matter of the murder of a man who ran around with
LBJ's sister, and who threatened to expose her personal habits,
LBJ wasn't worried about his sister at all, but how the bad
publicity might reflect on him and his ambitions.
As to the Kennedy murder, many theories abound, but this author
supplies significant details of interest. Basically, he says
that Oswald was, in fact, set up as a patsy, as Oswald claimed
immediately after he was apprehended by the Dallas PD, and he
relates the activities of the man recruited by LBJ's lawyer
to eliminate JFK, and the other 2 men who were at the scene
of the JFK murder and who participated.
This book would have benefited from a little better editing.
For example, the author names the man who was recruited to
shoot JFK, and gives many details of his history and movements,
and he then, early on, suggests he knows the name of the other
shooter of a fatal bullet, but that he can't quite name him
right now, and he is waiting on a little further proof. But that it will be forthcoming. Then, unhappily, later in the
book, the author plainly says the identity of the other shooter,
the man on the grassy knoll, will never be known. So, which is
it?
But he still has so many details, anyone interested in that
chapter in our history will want to read what he has to say.
And the writer tries a little too hard to distance himself from
any possible wrongdoing with his frequent claims of attorney-client privilege. He even reports that his partners learned
details of serious crimes in advance, but that they, and later
he, were prevented from revealing any of those facts by virtue
of that legal privilege. Baloney. Attorney ethics do not
allow a lawyer who learns facts of a crime in advance to keep
quiet and cover up the crime. Such action makes the lawyer part
of a criminal conspiracy or, at least, an accessory before the
fact.
Now some attorneys do, in fact, cover up crimes, but that is
now ethically permitted, and the attorney-client privilege does
not apply to protect either the attorney or the client.
It is hard to believe an attorney would make such assertion, but
the writer seems to be trying to distance himself from any
possible charge of wrongdoing.
But this is still interesting reading, and it is definitely a
"must" for anyone curious about what happened to JFK and why.
Such interested people will have to read this first-hand
account of the facts of the conspiracy.
Rating:
Summary: Politics as Usual
Review: It's easy to say "politics as usual" after reading this book
on the life nad politics of LBJ, but, believe it or not, this
one will give you a glimpse of politics you wish you had never
seen.
LBJ has to have been the most sleazy man to ever hold the office
of President of the US, and his records almost is beyond belief.
But this author gives most of the names and dates, with all
the connections, that show LJB was involved in a lifetime of crime, including bribery, extortion, influence-peddling of the
worst kind, womanizing of the lowest kind, and then, worst of
all, complicity in the murder of JFK.
The writer has good credentials for his knowledge, since he worked for the Dallas law firm that represented LBJ's personal
interests, and the senior partner for that firm served as LJB's
personal bagman, as well as being the one who usually delivered the payments as well as the ultimatiums. He went into that firm
as a young guy after the JFK murder, but he was there for years,
and he recounts how he learned the truth over a period of years,
as the 2 senior men decided they could trust him to be quiet and
keep the secrets.
The author is rather self-serving in his denial of any duty to
report crimes at the time, as he learned about them, and he
rather akwardly tries to use the legal profession's canons of
ethics as an excuse. He repeatedly asserts that the "lawyer-client privilege" kept him from repeating any of this information, but he even relates examples where crimes were planned in advance, with the help of these lawyers, and he still
tries to say that privilege protected everyone. That is simply
not true, and we have to wonder in surprise at his assertions,
when the law is very clear that such privilege would not allow
lawyers to conspire to commit crimes with immpunity.
But it is an interesting story and one which should be read by
every voter in the country.
As to the main claim that LBJ participated in the murder of JFK,
the writer even gives the name of the shooter who fired one of
the fatal bullets (now dead of course), and he repeats the oft-heard claim that Oswald was a patsy.
The book could have been better edited, because in one section,
he claims he knows who the other shooter was but says he has to
await the development of further proof before actually naming
him publicly. But in a later section, he says the exact identify of the other shooter will never be known.
But he gives details of where the 2 shooters of fatal bullets
were stationed and the order of firing, etc., and he further
explains their ability to escape by pointing out that LBJ's
help allowed them to have false Secret Service credentials. He
also explains that the plan was for Oswald to be caught on the
spot and shot and killed in a shoot-out with police, but that Oswald slipped away too quickly, to be apprehended a little later in a theater.
He explains that Oswald fired 2 bullets at JFK, but that both
missed their target, while the 2 real shooters both connected.
Also pointed out by him is that 3 men (the 2 shooters and a look-out) were supplied with the false Secret Service credentials, but that only Oswald was not included in that part
of the plan.
You don't have to be a "conspiracy" buff to find his details
interesting, so it is very worthwhile reading. And even if
the reader can't quite believe Vice-Pres. Johnson conspired to
kill a sitting President, the full details of LBJ's life of
thuggery and law-breaking are very believeable, with, as stated,
considerable detail. From stealing the Senate election of 1948
(and he names the man who illegally filled in the voters' registration lists of a particular Texas precinct so the total
votes allegedly cast wouldn't exceed the number of registered
voters) to the murder of a man who would have embarrassed LBJ
with public revelations of the sister of LBJ, this list of
crimes and wrong-doing goes beyond even what even the most cynical of us would have believed.
As said, every voter should read this list of crimes and political excesses.
Rating: 
Summary: Whether true or not, I liked this book
Review: If this book is full of facts we as a people have much to worry about regarding the power that our leaders wield. It has a twist in the JFK conspiracy type of books. He backs it up with facts, pictures from a different perspective and a number of things that compile quite a bit of circumstantial evidence. The smile on LBJs face during his swearing in as President on Air Force One was somewhat surreal. However, does circumstantial evidence really stand up to the test. He does open up a lot of new territory for research and discussion. Does anyone care any more though? This book is very readable. If anything it is a great book for understanding LBJ as a person and his approach to his office as President. Pray that this is not true. Our country, as wonderful as it is, may still be subject to corruption at the highest places.
Rating:
Summary: After All these Years--Finally the Answer!
Review: This book carefully traces the devious rise to power of LBJ and his contemptuous associates in shame. Only one person stood immovable between LBJ and the White House--John F. Kennedy.
LBJ must have despised the popularity and progressiveness of JFK, and this book carefully chronicles the escalation of evil behind LBJ's rise to power.
Blood, Power & Money is the most poignant book on the conspiracy to kill JFK. The fingerpring of LBJ's evil associate only definitively confirms what is laid out in the book.
The silence, as to the salient facts of this book, from doubters is deafening.
The "readers," who attack the author, obviously cannot attack the truth and the clear chronlogy contained in this book.
This book should be a must read for every history and political science class in America. We must never forget--the Truth sets us free and keeps us free!
Rating:
Summary: Hey Mom - I got a B+ in Conspiracy 101
Review: OK, folks. We've all heard it, read about it, thought about it and talked about it but have we written about it? Did that Texan, the former Senator and then vice-president, use his spare time to meet, plan and implement the assassination of the President while in his home state? Yessiree!! And if you don't believe it you are are obviously out of the loop and not at all familiar with a host of "stunning revelations". These types of "investigatory" (and I use the term loosely) tales were once the sole province of the militia types but now the Left has gotten into the act spinning out lunacies that make prior theories sound tame. (Newest: Israel is using a new "mini-nuke" to blow up targets around the world (Twin Towers/Bali/Nairobi) then blame it on terrorists.) But back to LBJ as hitman. Books like this, read without context, sometimes seem to make a little sense since one does not have to consider prior investigations, volumnious evidence to the contrary and intense research. But this one takes unconnected - or even normal - events along with faint smidgins of "possible" evidence and draws conclusions that only charitably be called "strange". The single fingerprint, the alleged contacts, the "time line" and all the other "evidence" would not be allowed by any judge in America. Worse, it appears that the primary reason for the book was to prop up the fading image of JFK as a "great" President when he was anything but. He falls in stature with each new revelation concerning his political and personal shenanigans/deals. If you're naming names and discussing possible reasons why not include RFK, Nixon (suggested), Bush (absurdly and tragically suggested), Hoover (another try), Krushchev (yep), the "CIA", Mafia, Castro, steel owners, cabal of "insiders" or maybe Jackie herself who was tired of being ignored for bimbos. Jeez Louise, will somebody step forward and get this over with??
And tell McClellan the story while you're at it.
Rating:
Summary: For All Americans--Thank You--a Wonderful Book
Review: Blood, Money & Power tells of a tortured path to power of LBJ, a man whom nothing--not cheating, not stealing, not murder--was apparently beyond his pernicious self. The author, an insider, must be commended for bringing forth the loose ends and tying them together. The conspiracy theorists may be disappointed that the answer was so simple and that so many rabbit trails were followed.
The chronological events in this book are extremely damaging to LBJ, who at times did not even appear to hide his arrogance and criminal activities.
But the fingerprint of LBJ's personal henchman, Mac Wallace, brings it all back to LBJ's doorstep.
We must not forget such evil, and we must all be vigilant to prevent such from ever happening again.
Please read this book--and don't ever forsake the truth.
Rating:
Summary: More history revealed
Review: Once you decide that there must have been a conspiracy in the assassination of JFK, the next question you'll be asking yourself is how could such a massive (and successful) cover-up have been engineered. The answer to this is that the most powerful person in the world was involved in it. That, of course, was LBJ. This book explores motive, means and opportunity, tells how the 'engineering' took place, and it is presented in a credible manner.
Occasionally McClellan seems to get bogged down in background details, but finally you realized that this is a setup for the punch line, and enlightenment.
I won't need to read another book on the assassination for quite a while.
Rating:
Summary: Too Little and Too Late
Review: An insider's belated account of how the hidden hand of LBJ's Texas functionaries actually worked--behind the shield of the lawyer-client privilege. The book's validity hangs in large part on the slender thread of a partial fingerprint discovered on the sixth floor of the Texas school book depositary building where there appears to have been convincing proof that the print belongs to Malcolm "Mack" Wallace, a convicted murderer and acknowledged LBJ hit man--rather than to Lee Harvey Oswald. As McClelland tells it, that fingerprint, coupled with a number of other scandals about to converge on the Vice President and end his political career if not land him in jail, gave sufficient impetus to him and his evil home-grown Texas mafia--to commit the murder of the century. Beyond that, the reader is given what the author calls "factions" which is (as I understand it) his fiction elaborated and interpolated between a paucity of facts, innuendoes and insiders bragging about how the assassination of JFK was actually carried out. In other words, "factions" is McClelland's fiction loosely disguised as facts. Except for the fingerprint, impending scandals that would have landed LBJ in jail, and after-the-fact hearsay, the narrative that McClelland unravels is very much like what we have come to expect of the lunatic fringe of the JFK assassination conspiracy crowd. There are differences however that make the book worth reading. McClelland confirms that a party attended by a host of bigwigs was held on 21 November at oil magnate Clint Murcheson's home. The book also admits that the fatal shot came from the right front by someone he refers to as "Junior." Any book that does not at least acknowledge that the fatal shot was a front head shot has absolutely no credibility with the majority of Americans. Although McClelland remains mum on who attended the assassination eve party, the Garrison investigation, and on who "Junior" is (was), Barr does indeed seem to know more than he is letting on to. Maybe his next book will be a real mindblower. Anyway, this book takes a fresh book at the Texas connections, and for that reason alone gets three stars and demands being read.
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